You bet. We are in for an interesting period!
This forenoon QMII will fly in to meet with the Royal Investigator, to inform her that he has only found the basis for forming a one-party government. I.e. consisting of his own party, the Liberals.
He will almost certainly present the government to QMII, for her approval, Sunday and then take over.
This is most interesting! This will either work well (but not necessarily for the Liberals) or not work at all.
But Lars Løkke had to form a government with his party, or he would have been political history within a few months. After all his party lost the election, when they should have had a very good election and very much because of him personally.
The problem with forming a right wing coalition is mainly that the Danish People's Party (who are really right wing, nationalist social democrats) and Liberal Alliance (who are to the right of Margaret Thatcher) can hardly agree on anything at all!
That means a Liberal, Danish People's Party, Liberal Alliance coalition is virtually impossible. But if Lars Løkke forms a coalition with Liberal Alliance and perhaps the Conservative, they can't do much anyway without the support of the Danish People's Party.
But if Lars Løkke forms a coalition with the Danish People's Party, Liberal Alliance threatened to be as annoying as possible, forcing the coalition to deal with the opposition - at a cost! Especially to the Liberals.
An impossible situation.
Personally I believe, Anders Samuelsen, the leader of Liberal Alliance blew it. He huffed and puffed too much and now his party risk being de facto sidelined. Because after all there are only some 60 mandates out of 179 in favor of Liberal Alliance demand of lowering the taxes at the top, rather than at the bottom of the income scale.
However, a one party government has to do an extreme amount of political maneuvering, but it also means political freedom. Lars Løkke is now in a position where he can deal with anyone also with the parties in the opposition who agrees with his policy in some aspects.
But so can the largest right wing party, the Danish People's Party! Because they too to a large extent are in agreement with the opposition, especially when it comes to welfare politics.
So Lars Løkke is gambling big time! Because the government risk being usurped if the Danish People's Party, the Social Democrats and Socialist People's Party not to mention the Unity List create a working relationship.
If that is so, the de facto PM will be the leader of the Danish People's Party, Thulesen Dahl. I.e. we will have
two political coalitions working side by side.
I predict that within two years we will have either a new general election or the Danish People's Party will join the Liberals in a reformed government (after they have gotten their pound of flesh! And trained their new MP's). It is very difficult to imagine that such a weak one-party government can last for four years.
Who said politics is boring?